Japanese late Nanking cherry trees, about 3-8 meters high, bark gray black or gray brown. Branchlets are white, pale brown, glabrous.
Tokyo Nanking cherry is bigger than the former, up to 16 meters. Its bark is light purplish brown, its twigs are green, with sparse hairs.
The leaves of Japanese late Nanking cherry are oval or inverted oval, about 5-9 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide. Stipules linear, margin serrate, caducous.
The leaf shape of Tokyo Nanking cherry is oval or obovate. Compared with the former, it is wider, about 5-12 cm long, 2.5-7 cm wide, and the stipule is lanceolate.
Japanese late Nanking cherry has umbelliform racemes, oval petals, white or pink
Tokyo Nanking cherry for the corymb, bracts for maroon, petals for obovate, color only pink
